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Christians and christianity

Christian life consists of faith and charity.

- Luther, Martin

Christians and christianity Motivational Quotes

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If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Studd, C. T.

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what they would have been even if Christianity did not exist.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.

Halverson, Richard

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

Waller, Edmund

The trouble with some of us is that we have been inoculated with small doses of Christianity which keep us from catching the real thing.

Weatherhead, Leslie

Any hope that America would finally grow up vanished with the rise of fundamentalist Christianity. Fundamentalism, with its born-again regression, its pink-and-gold concept of heaven, its literal-mindedness, its rambunctious good cheer... its anti-intellectualism... its puerile hymns... and its faith-healing... are made to order for King Kid America.

King, Florence

One ABC of Christianity: Always Be Cheerful [1 Thessalonians 5:16]

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Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.

Weil, Simone

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Christianity makes suffering contagious.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Real Christianity is lovely. There is a quality about a Spirit-filled, radiant Christian that draws and attracts others and causes them to enjoy favor with all the people. The truth is that the gospel is not nearly as offensive as some of its proponents!

Hawkins, O. S.

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How natural that the errors of the ancient should be handed down and, mixing with the principles and system which Christ taught, give to us an adulterated Christianity.

Brown, Olympia

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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

Moody, Dwight L.

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White people really deal more with God and black people with Jesus.

Giovanni, Nikki

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Don't feel superior just because you go to church, it doesn't make you a Christian.

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There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Moody, Dwight L.

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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Christianity, with its doctrine of humility, of forgiveness, of love, is incompatible with the state, with its haughtiness, its violence, its punishment and its wars.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

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A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this -- that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made -- not to understand -- but to feel -- as crime.

Poe, Edgar Allan

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Christianity, above all, has given a clear-cut answer to the demands of the human soul.

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I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man.

Moody, Dwight L.

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Being a Christian is more than just an instantaneous conversion; it is like a daily process whereby you grow to be more and more like Christ.

Graham, Billy

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Our brains are no longer conditioned for reverence and awe. We cannot imagine a Second Coming that would not be cut down to size by the televised evening news, or a Last Judgment not subject to pages of holier-than-thou second-guessing in The New York Review of Books.

Updike, John

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Christians are rare people on earth.

Luther, Martin

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It is only when all our Christian ancestors are allowed to become our contemporaries that the real splendor of the Christian faith and the Christian life begins to dawn upon us.

Hough, Lynn Harold

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Faith makes a Christian. Life proves a Christian. Trial confirms a Christian. Death crowns a Christian.

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Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan -- spoiled.

Zangwill, Israel

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I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.

Lewis, C. S.

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Christian means coming from Christ. Just as a Californian comes from California and a Bostonian is someone who comes from Boston, A Christian is one who comes from Christ.

Walk, Don

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What if men take to following where He leads, weary of mumbling Athanasian creeds?

Noel, Roden

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If you make a great deal of Christ, He will make a great deal of you; But it you make but little of Christ, He will make but little of you.

Torrey, R. A.

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Christianity is the highest perfection of humanity.

Johnson, Samuel

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He who begins by loving Christianity better than truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or church better than Christianity, and end in loving himself better than all.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Camus, Albert

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The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Kempis, Thomas

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The Christianity which is shared is the Christianity which is convincing.

Hough, Lynn Harold

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With two thousand years of Christianity behind him... a man can't see a regiment of soldiers march past without going off the deep end. It starts off far too many ideas in his head.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

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A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Graham, Billy

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A good example is far better than a good precept.

Moody, Dwight L.

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The great difference between present-day Christianity and that of which we read in these letters is that to us it is primarily a performance, to them it was a real experience. To these men it is quite plainly the invasion of their lives by a new quality of life altogether. They do not hesitate to describe this as Christ living in them.

Phillips, James

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A Christian is a man who feels repentance on Sunday for what he did on Saturday and is going to do on Monday.

Ybarra, Thomas

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Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

Arnold, Matthew

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He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.

Munro, Hector Hugh

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Is your Christianity ancient history--or current events?

Shoemaker, Samuel M.

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I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Byron, Lord